ZHANG Xidong, HUANG Hulin. Heat transfer enhancement and drag reduction with rod for flow around cylinder[J]. CIESC Journal, 2014, (2): 488-494.DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.0438-1157.2014.02.017.
The influence of rod diameter d/D and center-to-center spacing ratio S/D on the forced convective heat transfer and flow drag for two isothermal cylinders in tandem arrangement are numerically investigated using a finite volume method for the three-dimensional channel. The working fluid is the eutectic alloy GaInSn. The convective heat transfer is much stronger as rod diameter decreases and as center-to-center spacing ratio increases. The overall increment of heat transfer decreases with the increase of center-to-center spacing ratio and rod diameter. Moreover
the overall increment of heat transfer fluctuates when the center-to-center spacing ratio is less than the critical value S/D=4. The overall increment of heat transfer is 22.3%—25%
and the system drag (including the rod and cylinder drags) is reduced by 40% at d/D = 0.1 and S/D≥5
indicating that the utilization of small rod to disturb the fluid can enhance the heat transfer and reduce the drag.